This title was first published in 1980. This volume is a collection of essays on Rudolf Bahro and his ideas in Eastern Europe, of informing of a third way in the traditin of antiSalinist opposition, his contribution to the philosophy of socialism, his alternaive wiriting of history and state socialism.

ULF WOLTER, a director of Verlag Olle & Wolter and editor of the journal kritik, was born in East Berlin in 1950 and studied politics at the Free University.

Protosocialism and Late Capitalism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Based on Bahro's Analysis, Bahro's Contribution to the Philosophy of Socialism, A Critique of Bahro's Alternative Writing of History, The Asiatic Mode of Production, State Socialism, Was "Actually Existing Socialism" Historically Necessary? Bahro's Ideas on Changes in Eastern Europe, Against the Popes: How Hard It Is to Discuss Bahro's Book, His Refrain is Heard Around the World: An Initial Assessment of the Bahro Congress